30 BULLETIN 428, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
M. falcata microphylla Cusin and Ans. (/6). 
No description is given of this plant, but judging from the illustration it 
is very slender; apparently prostrate; leaflets small, narrow, truncate, 
toothed at the apex; pods rather broad, faleate or nearly straight. Lo- 
cality : Not specified. 
M. falcata gracilis Urban (62, p..56). 
Racemes 1 to 5 flowered; leaflets only 3 to 5 mm. long; flowers yellow; 
pods straight or sickle shaped. Locality: Not indicated. 
MW. falcata aurea Schur (56, p. 171). 
Flowers golden yellow; pods with short, soft hairs; leaflets obovate- 
obcordate, toothed at the apex; stems ascending or procumbent. Locality: 
Austria. 
Mf. falcata paucifiora Lindm. (36). 
Racemes more open than those of ordinary J/. falcata; peduneles few 
(1-4) flowered; flowers small; leaflets very narrow; pods falcate. Lo- 
cality: Near Odessa. Russia. 
M. falcata aureiflora Rouy and Foucaud (51, p. 11). 
Pods pubeseent; flowers golden, almost orange. Locality: Not specified. 
M. falcata pubescens Rouy and Foucaud (51, p. 11). . 
Pods pubescent, sometimes almost glabrous; flowers yellow. Locality: 
France. 
Botanical names that have been applied to what are apparently hybrids of 
<= Medicago falcata and M. sativa. 
M. varia Martyn (43, p. 87). 
Flowers variegated, showing yellow, green, white, blue, purple, and black; 
stipules narrower than those of IWedicago sativa. Locality: Not indicated. 
M. media Persoon (48). 
Peduncles slightly corymbose; flowers pale blue, finally becoming golden 
yellow; leaflets linear-cuneate, dentate at the apex ; ee below. Locality: 
Not indicated. 
M. falcata versicolor Wallr. (65). 
Flowers pale blue, finally becoming yellow. Locality: Trotha and Bitten- 
dorf, Germany. meee 
M. sativa versicolor Ser. Mss. (57, p. 173). 
Flowers yellow and blue; equals J/. falcata versicolor of Wallr., Sched. 
Crit. Locality : Not specified. 
M., falcata hybrida Gaudin (22. p. 611). 
Flowers pale blue, finally becoming green and yellow. Locality: Nyon 
Switzerland.- (Gaudin, Flora Helvetica, 1829. v. 4. p. 611.) 
M. sativa hybrida Gaudin (22, p. 612). 
Flowers yellow. Locality: Nyon, Switzerland. 
M. falcata tumida Ser. (57, p. 172). 
Flowers swollen; stamens coalescing to the swollen, slightly fleshy, abor- 
tive carpel. Locality: About Geneva. This description would seem to in- 
dicate that these flowers are abnormal, in which case the plant is probably a 
hybrid, as hybrid plants-having flowers of similar character have been ob- 
served in a number of instances. 
M. sylvestris Fries (21, p. 92). 
Peduncles racemed; banner of corolla oblong, with dark-green striations; 
pods circular or semicircular. Locality: Skanes. Gothland, and Oland, 
Sweden. This name is intended by the author to cover all forms of Medi- 
cago falcata X sativa. 
